Las Fuentes Georginas, San Marcos and San Pedro

This past weekend we first headed to Las Fuentes Georginas. The Georginas are some mega hot sulfur pools way up in the mountain. We took the bus, which was by far the scariest bus ride my whole time here, and got off in Zunil, a small pueblo. We headed up the road thinking it wasn´t too far. We heard there was a bus but thought it would be nice to walk. Two hours later, we realized it wasn´t as close as we thought and the bus passed us when we were about 5 minutes away. Needless to say, we made it and were ready for a hot soak. It felt amazing. There were three pools-hot, warm and cool. The hot one was SO hot that it was impossible to get it. When it came time to leave, of course there was no bus. We were offered a ride by two college students and jumped on the opportunity. It´s funny because I would NEVER  feel safe bumming a ride from someone in the states, but it feels perfectly safe and normal here. They were really good kids and gave us a ride all the way back to Xela.
The next day we headed to San Marcos/ San Pedro. It is really one city that is divided by a street. The peeps in San Marcos hate the people of San Pedro and vice verses. It is weird because it really is one city. We went with Fernando, Lily, Sebastian and Isa. The other kids did not want to come. We went on a major shopping spree. Not exactly what you are probably thinking. There are bunches of hole-in-the-wall places that have used clothes from the states. It was like a glorified D.I. or garage sell (my favorite!!). We got a load of clothes for less than 15 bucks. Awesome. Nothing makes me happier than saving a buck.

This was on our forever long walk to the Georginas. It was absolutely beautiful. There were farms like this all over the place.

It was a busy day for the farmers and we saw a lot of this.

Beautiful, eh? See that white pipe under the bridge? Those were all over this mountain because they have the hot water in them (that they get from the volcano) to transport to the pools.

This is the hottest pool. Notice that nobody is hanging out in there? Nobody wanted to cook themselves to death! 

This is one of the nice shops in San Pedro. Most of the shops just had big piles of clothes that you had to dig through. Well worth the deals we got.

This is Ben at the market in San Pedro where we had lunch. He is sporting one of his new jackets that he bought!

Public building in San Marcos. It looks really cool in person, I promise.

See those brown logs sitting on the table? That is sugar! They use that kind of sugar in everything down here. Stacked against the wall are blocks of the stuff wrapped in dried leaves to help dry it out. It tastes amazing.

Even cookie got something from the shopping spree!!